Exam 6: Dissociative Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, and Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Health

Baron Karl von Münchausen was notorious because of his ______.

For an individual with dissociative identity disorder, the sudden transformation of one personality into? another may be experienced as__________________.

When John was traveling in Southeast Asia, he observed a man suddenly become highly excited, violently attack other people and throw items around the marketplace. He was later told by a friend that the Man quickly recovered and had no memory of his aggressive behavior. The friend pointed out that the man Had a culture-bound syndrome called_______.

Derealization is most commonly associated with ______.

Which statement is true concerning the treatment of conversion disorders?

A study that tracked use of medical care by patients with excessive somatic concerns found them to be heavy users of ________.

A technique for relieving the discomfort to migraine headaches by regulating blood flow is ______ biofeedback.

A culture-bound disorder in which a person enters a trance-like state, suddenly becomes highly excited and violently attacks other people or destroys objects and later claims to have No memory of the episode, is called ______.

Years ago, Mandy had a very "messy" extramarital affair. While she still remembers the affair, when thoughtless people bring it up in conversation, she claims to have no memory of The affair or person with whom she had it. Mandy's pretending to have amnesia is a form of ______.

Dissociative identity disorder appears to ______.

A Swedish study revealed that ______ stress tripled the risk of recurrent cardiac events in women.

Biofeedback concerning muscle tension is called ______ biofeedback.

Which of the following refers to a disorder in which people intentionally falsify or induce physical or emotional illness or injury in another person, often a child or dependent person?

______ comprises several ways of narrowing consciousness to moderate the stressors of the outside world.

Describe the Type A Personality and its relationship to health.

Each personality in people with multiple personalities is so distinct that the personality may have its own allergies and eyeglass prescription.

Describe dissociative amnesia, identifying and briefly explaining its five specific types and discuss how it differs from other types of amnesia.

Overtime work has been linked to cardiovascular disease.

According to cognitive theorists, attention to physical complaints can serve as a means of ______ other life problems.

You heard that your new roommate is a Type A personality. You would expect the roommate to be ______.